You'll lose your reader if you are vague, not clear, and not present. We love details, personal connections, stories.

If you love the work, it will love you back.

Shut up and write. Don't talk about writing, just physically do it.

Friends open the door for me to write. Then I get paid attention to and it allows me to write other books. The Great Spring and the thirtieth anniversary of Bones just came out and while I'm happy and excited about that, I've already finished a new book. That's what practice does. You don't get caught.

There is no security, no assurance that because we wrote something good two months ago, we will do it again. Actually, every time we begin, we wonder how we ever did it before.

Wait until you are hungry to say something, until there is an aching in you to speak.

Stress is basically a disconnection from the earth, a forgetting of the breath.